Opinion
Unsatisfied with school’s website info
At the beginning of this school year, the home page of the CSB/SJU website had changed. As well as logging on to the internet, students also log on to the CSB/SJU intranet, or SharePoint. At first glance, the new page …
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Skeptical food for our thought
“Pizza a vegetable? Congress says yes.” This absurd headline caught my eye a few weeks back. Reading through the article, I learned that Congress declared tomato paste on pizza to be legally considered a serving of vegetables in school lunch. …
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Who We Are
Considering the tone of my article last week, some think I have been asked to consider writing advertisements for CSB/SJU. That, folks, is simply not my intention. This is straight logic, no chaser up in here. CSB/SJU does a lot …
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Somalia needs a voice
When I first stumbled upon the posters scattered around Sexton Commons that promoted the “Somalia Benefit Concert”, I must confess: they made me tremble. The marginal status already assigned to African problems – the continent is, after all, caricatured in …
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SOPA/PIPA Needs Reworking
Hunters of our beloved interweb have come to battle, guns a-blazin’, stirring an enormous uproar on social media outlets. Craigslist, Reddit and Wikipedia all went black last Tuesday, much to the chagrin of anyone who had homework (or time to …
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Just Tweet about it
022 pmlundberg@csbsju.edu Welcome back, Bennies and Johnnies! We hope your break was luxurious and full of scandal. While spending Christmas break huddled in front of the warm, glowing TV, we came to the conclusion that Twitter has surpassed CNN and …
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Culture Shock: It will follow you home, too
This time of year, our campuses are abuzz with students returning from a semester abroad, reconnecting with friends and trying to put into words what they experienced during their time away from CSB/SJU. As one of these students, I was …
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Who We Are
The real social struggle at CSB/SJU is to avoid becoming popular so you get a moment or two of peace throughout the day. Succeeding at being unpopular at this place borders on the impossible, as the community is so welcoming …
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Reflection on RedGage
Community is an idea that none of us are unfamiliar with here at CSB/SJU. It is seen throughout both our campuses in athletics, residential life, clubs and organizations of all kinds, the classroom and even abroad. A new SJU organization …
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Occupy Wall Street continues strong
Block letters scrawled into cardboard are hoisted up over the heads of the Occupy Denver demonstrators following Black Friday. One reads: “You can pitch a tent for capitalism, but you can’t pitch a tent for democracy.” We round a corner …
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